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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis laid out a new media strategy on Tuesday, pivoting from appearing only on friendly rightwing channels to take questions at a press conference and sitting for an interview with CNN. 'I don't think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago, in January, and so I want to focus on looking forward,' he said. 'I don't want to look back. I do not want to see him ... I hope he doesn't get charged. I don't think it'll be good for the country.'

In a series of strategic political and military moves, Hezbollah is intensifying preparations for an imminent confrontation with Israel, drawing global attention and raising concerns about regional stability. Under the guise of the battle over an Israeli border barrier, the Lebanese terrorist group aims to preserve its option of invading the Galilee, while also serving Iran’s interests in establishing a foothold in Syria. Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is promoting the deployment of his forces along the border, with over 30 observation posts in place there. Lebanese sources suggest that the group is readying itself for a prolonged conflict with Israel,...

When Benjamin Netanyahu first became prime minister in 1996, he won with a simple slogan coined by some of his Chabad supporters: “Netanyahu: Good for the Jews” (נתניהו: טוב ליהודים). The morning after Netanyahu’s surprising victory, Shimon Peres, the outgoing prime minister, summarized his defeat with one terse statement: “The Jews defeated the Israelis.” Peres understood that the Oslo Accords and the wave of Arab suicide bombings, the hot-button issues of the time, were disguising the true battle for power in Israeli society. As Yair Lapid would later write about the Gaza disengagement, “It was not despite the settlers but...

As leftist programs in public universities continue to draw more attention, taxpayer-funded University of Texas is promoting LGBT behavior through its Gender and Sexuality Center. The center’s goal, according to the website, is to “provide opportunities for all members of the UT Austin community to explore, organize, and promote learning around issues of gender and sexuality.” One event the center hosts is its “Lavender Graduation,” a graduation ceremony exclusively for “LGBTQIA+” people and their “allies.” Students cross a lavender stage and receive a “Lavender Graduation certificate,” as well as a rainbow tassel and stole. Other events like “Trans Thursdays” and...

Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki openly questioned Sunday whether House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer is being used by China following the indictment of Hunter Biden probe witness Gal Luft. “How concerned are you that James Comer, the chairman of the committee, was knowingly [or] unknowingly, working with, co-opted by a foreign agent?” Psaki asked Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on her show “Inside with Jen Psaki.” Raskin avoided giving a direct answer to Psaki’s question, but claimed to be concerned that the powerful investigatory panel is “suddenly being compromised in a...

'Zero,' replied the conservative commentator when asked how many COVID vaccines he has received. (LifeSiteNews) — In a confrontational interview with Republican presidential nomination candidate Asa Hutchinson, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson asserted that he never took the COVID-19 vaccine. The revelation took place during a July 14 presidential summit sponsored by Blaze Media in which Carlson was pressing the former Arkansas governor about his position on the COVID vaccine and related mandates. “How did you feel about [COVID mandates] and how many COVID shots did you take, and how do you feel about it now in retrospect?” Carlson asked Hutchinson....

Former President Donald Trump's Republican allies rallied behind him after he revealed that he received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith, indicating he is likely to be indicted for a third time this year — this time for his role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., called the target letter "absolute bulls**t." "This is the only way that the Democrats have to beat President Trump is to arrest him, smear him, charge him with ridiculous charges," said Greene, who has repeatedly defended the pro-Trump Capitol rioters. "All in cover-up of...

Fans of the historical drama “The Chosen” are rejoicing. The series has been granted a waiver from SAG-AFTRA to continue filming amid the ongoing strike. This means the Jesus of Nazareth series only missed a day or two of filming, Deadline reported. The cast includes several SAG members, including Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus. The series is the first known TV show to be granted an exemption from the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which counts some of Hollywood’s biggest stars among its many members. On Saturday, “The Chosen” creator Dallas Jenkins took to...

Elon Musk said Twitter was still losing money, blaming a "heavy debt load" and sliding advertising revenue.In a tweet replying to a user who suggested Musk get a consortium together to buy Twitter's debt, he bemoaned the company's uncomfortable financial position."We're still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load," Musk tweeted. "Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else." Musk's made sweeping changes to Twitter since paying $44 billion to buy it last October, including cutting about 90% of the workforce.Still, Musk faces a steep uphill battle...

The member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — consisting of the teetering Masters of Empire and their tawdry entourage of class-stratified vassals — have just concluded a historic confab in Vilnius, Lithuania, capital of the alpha Baltic chihuahua. In a shockingly transparent but otherwise rather banal series of events it became unmistakably clear that their grand plans to subject Russia to the “rules-based order” have come to naught. Among others, the following consequences will ripple in the wake of this reality: Russia will achieve a decisive conclusion to the war on terms they dictate. NATO is shattered as...

The newspaper has long defended the official pandemic statistics, even suggesting the death count was low Art installation in White Bear Lake, Minnesota in memory of people who died of Covid-19 Nearly a third of US deaths ascribed to Covid-19 were actually caused by something else, the New York Times admitted on Monday, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The official number [of Covid-19 deaths] is probably an exaggeration because it includes some people who had [the] virus when they died even though it was not the underlying cause of death,” the Times article read, explaining...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Supply Madness after the Kerch Bridge Kaboom. Crimea Isolation ongoing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUL6y7mSwvA The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 12th July 2023 – 22:00 https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-504-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

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The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution condemning antisemitism and stating that Israel is not a racist state, NBC News reported. The vote was 412-9, with 195 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting yes. Nine Democrats voted against the non-binding resolution, several of whom have previously denounced Israel as an “apartheid state”. One Democrat voted present. The resolution was a Republican response to Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who over the weekend called Israel a “racist state”, before walking back the comments and stating that she had directed them at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

Bear in mind, this is not something Matt Walsh did, just something he learned of and told the world about, but it is still pretty funny: This is awesome. A school board candidate in Fairbanks won first place in a local parade for his Johnny the Walrus float. The judges were libs who only realized after the fact that the float was based on my children’s book, which caused massive meltdowns pic.twitter.com/vwMtlahSQd — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 17, 2023 Seriously, is this guy trying to challenge Chris Loesch’s mustache supremacy? He has no chance of winning that fight. Or is...

When an average person say they’re thinking about buying something huge, they’re probably not really going to do it. When mega-billionaire Elon Musk says he’s thinking about it, he probably already has the ball rolling. That’s why his latest Tweet about purchasing something is possibly more than just fodder for his social media fans. So is Musk going to buy Fox News? CNN? Both? We’ll see, but speculation is already ramping up.

Federal investigators have reportedly seized the phones of advisors to 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump as part of an investigation into the events of January 6, 2021. According to the New York Times, the phones of Boris Epshteyn, described as "an in-house counsel who helps coordinate Mr. Trump’s legal efforts," and campaign strategist Mike Roman, who was director of Election Day operations for Trump’s campaign in 2020. The phones of John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark were also seized. Clark's phone was seized as part of an investigation into alternate electors. The action comes as Trump revealed on Tuesday morning that...

Hebrew Matthew And The Brit ChadashahMordechai ben AvramWell, well, as it turns out a few Jews preserved an original Hebrew copy of the Gospel of Matthew. See: Romans 3:1-2.Acts 3:20 And he shall send Yeshua HaMoshiach which before was preached unto you: 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which ELoHIM hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.כא אֲשֶׁר צָרִיךְ שֶׁיְּקַבְּלוּ אׂתוֹ הַשָּׁמַיִם עַד־יְמֵי שׁוּב כָּל־הַדְּבָרִים לְתִקּוּנָם כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר הָאֱלׂהִים בְּפִי־נְבִיאָיו הַקְּדוֹשִׁים מִימֵי עוֹלָם Zephaniah 3:9 “For then I will restore to the peoples a pure...

[Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Humani Generis, and the Holy Ghost’s Protection of What John XXIII Rejected“The Holy Spirit does not always prevent the necessary consequences of our negligence.” (Fr. Alvaro Calderon, Prometheus: The Religion of Man, p. 201) In his One Hundred Years of Modernism, Fr. Dominique Bourmaud provided a sobering assessment of the way in which the architects of Vatican II so thoroughly disavowed Pius XII’s encyclical condemning the errors threatening the Church, Humani Generis:“Humani Generis appeared in 1950. The year 1965 marked the closing of the Second Vatican Council, which cast doubt on the fundamental points reaffirmed by...

This session, the North Carolina legislature has taken aim at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings on UNC-System campuses. On March 14th, Senate Majority Staff Director Derrick Welch sent a letter to the UNC System requesting a list of all employee trainings on that topic from 2023 and the previous three years. Since DEI in higher ed is a matter of continuing interest for the Martin Center, we promptly sent public-records requests to the UNC System and its 16 constituent institutions, requesting all responses sent to Welch and the legislature. At the time of this article’s publication, 12 of the...